Comments on: ‘Odysseus’ Movie To Be Like ’300 Meets Taken’

By: Saheed

Saheed — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 20:12:42 +0000

Wow I’m excited…and I’m pretty sure the first post is a lie.

By: Anne

Anne — Tue, 04 May 2010 22:19:23 +0000

I read the script and it is almost NOTHING like the Odyssey. The characters are way off. Telemachus is rewritten as a angsty teen who is constantly fighting with his dad. Penelope dies in the end. Odysseus never turns into a beggar to hide his identity. He gets captured and it’s basicly like poorly written fan fiction.

By: ad

ad — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:28:36 +0000

gerard butler. period.

By: ad

ad — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:28:36 +0000

gerard butler. period.

By: ad

ad — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:27:27 +0000

holy crap diud you really write all this bullllshit no one wants to know.

By: ad

ad — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:27:27 +0000

holy crap diud you really write all this bullllshit no one wants to know.

By: Vic the Critic

Vic the Critic — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:25:26 +0000

Essence of Rambo + Drama of Taken + CG Backgrounds/All around effects of 300 = Box Office Gold. I predict this movie will easily take #1.

By: Vic the Critic

Vic the Critic — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:25:26 +0000

Essence of Rambo + Drama of Taken + CG Backgrounds/All around effects of 300 = Box Office Gold. I predict this movie will easily take #1.

By: ad

ad — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:28:36 +0000

gerard butler. period.

By: ad

ad — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:27:27 +0000

holy crap diud you really write all this bullllshit no one wants to know.

By: Vic the Critic

Vic the Critic — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:25:26 +0000

Essence of Rambo + Drama of Taken + CG Backgrounds/All around effects of 300 = Box Office Gold. I predict this movie will easily take #1.

By: magicmad

magicmad — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:57:06 +0000

noooo. that sounds as though they are going to just, wreck the Odyssey!
no mention of Mythology & Gods/Godesses (like Troy, a pitiful adaption of the Illiad).

oh, and a small point, its not just Odysseus that takes back hhis kingdom, his son and a number of his servants help him :/

By: zibe

zibe — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:21:21 +0000

I have actually been waiting for this satory to to be made into a modern day movie for quite some time, but the story described above is a smack in the face of this this epic. this should definately be about his journey home, and the tribulations along the way. I am all about ending with a kickass fight scene, but lets retell the story not make up a new one.

By: steven the git

steven the git — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:13:29 +0000

I’ll still to the book.

The main story, as Chris said, is the journey home and that has the best stuff. He doesn’t come back to find an invading force but a bunch of blokes living in his home and harassing his wife and servants.
I do like the ending, full of good old fashioned smackdown, but that’s all it is. It’s the journey that makes you root for Odysseus, because you know all he has been through.

Totally agree, he’s not Conan. The end fight is a massacre because he outthinks the suitors.

By: SK-47

SK-47 — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:37:54 +0000

Sounds like they want to make something similar to God Of War but I believe that Universal has the rights to it.
At least they are doing something different with the story, and this iteration is described I am all for it. But then, why not include his confrontation with the Cyclops as well, and the other creatures?

I also would like Sean Bean as well, but with this ‘take’ on the story, why not just go for broke and get a big guy to be in the role & make a star out of him? Use the 80s action template and create a new bonafide action star!

By: Darren

Darren — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:16:03 +0000

Wow Chris! What are you a search engine or something? Dude, that was um (ahemm)awsome. And Stu, Robert Dr. in a role like that? No way man.

By: Josh R

Josh R — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:54:05 +0000

Okay, so this isn’t a sequel to Troy, obviously. However, I want Sean Bean to return in the Odysseus role. If they want a similar feel like Taken, then an old british guy who can still kick ass is the way to go.

By: Matt K

Matt K — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:08:38 +0000

i agree w/ andy on that, i cant stand sitting through a 3 hour film w/o having to take a piss and it would be sooo much better to pause the film

By: Andy S

Andy S — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:04:49 +0000

@ogb….

Yep. I’d rather watch it on my big screen TV in my living room so I can pause it to take a leak. Or grab a soda. There are only a handful of movies that make me want to see it in the theater and fork out my $10 and THIS film is NOT one of them.

By: Stu Shiffman

Stu Shiffman — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:54:01 +0000

Actually, I think that it would be interesting to see someone like Robert Downing Jr. in the role…